Job 38-39: Out of the Storm

Then the LORD answered Job out of the storm. - Job 38:1 NIV

Out of the storm that has been surrounding Job, God finally speaks.  But it is not to give Job the answer as to why all of his calamities have befallen him.  Instead it is to ask of Job eternal questions that will put him in his place.

   Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand....
   Who laid its cornerstone while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
   "Have you ever given orders to the morning, or shown the dawn its place?
   "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?
   Can you bind the beautiful Pleiades?  Can you loose the cords of Orion?
   Who endowed the heart with wisdom or gave understanding to the mind?
   "Who let the wild donkey go free? Who untied his ropes?
   "Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane?  - Job 38-39

All these and many more are the questions that God laid before Job.  It is almost as if God was saying, 'Job, you think your troubles are overwhelming.  Think again, look at me.  I am overwhelming.'
The Psalmist, David, had it right.  He often found himself in perilous situations just like Job, yet he was moved to sing:

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. - Psalm 8:3-5 KJV

God has always been speaking to his chosen out of the storms, and peace lies not in the solution to our problems, but in the knowledge of who God really is.